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Walt Whitman 3

Mysticism, Democracy, Individuality&Personality
The 1881 publication of the Leaves of Grass contained more than twenty-four poems, which were reasonably filled with ten or more diversified types of themes. Walt Whitman the author and compiler of this exceptional work changed the status of poetry writing through his utilization of thought and expression in the publication of the Leaves of Grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a collogue and admirer of Walt once spoke this of him “…Whitman, that Sir, is a strange case, a case unknown to any of us, unless we should stumble upon him at church one day…”(Chase 142). A prevalent subject in all of Whitman’s poetry is his use of ...

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was a man’s own individual identity, which has a distinct quality and being, different from the selves of other men, but could be utilized to identify other men. The soul is another type of identity of mankind, which finds its niche in a human, and begins to amplify its personality. This self and soul that embodies every man on this celestial body is a portion of the divine soul also known as god. Whitman’s use of these two elements led him to a closer path towards god, as he once said “… A man, who finds himself, is I the way of coming closer in contact with god…”(Whitman 104). Some critics confuse Whitman’s use of self and soul to be egotism through his use of the pronoun “I”, but he uses “I” as a universal, a part of the angelic world (God), and therefore he is not an egotistical man.
Whitman had a deep faith in the democracy of America because this political form of government respected the individual. He ...

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Added: 3/15/2004 05:39:26 PM
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